Help!  Font issue in Word for Mac

Just recently purchased Office for Macs.  When I go to use the fonts in Word, they all show in spanish to others tho I see it in English.  The style says Normal + Latin.  How do i change this?  Please help..have proposal due today.
Thanks!

OriginalJosephK wrote:
I never actually found the Tools > Language setting. Would this be in System Preferences > Language and Region?
Apple preferences are kind of irrelevant for Word.  The place to look for Tools > Language is in the Word menu itself.  And the keyboard/font matching box is in Word preferences/Edit/Editing Options.

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